37504 37511 steel slab South Bank 27th June 1989
A pair of heavyweight refurbs, 37504 named British Steel Corby and 37511, now in Railfreight two tone grey and named Stockton Haulage run a long train of raw steel bloom and billet out of Lackenby and past the South Bank coke ovens early afternoon of the 27th of June 1989.
Stockton Haulage was a company based at Stranrear and received a daily speedlink train from Tees Yard. Set up with a section 8 government grant in 1979, the company moved, amongst other rail borne commodities, large amounts of steel from Teesside to Northern Ireland using rail for the mainland operation and transferring to truck at their depot on the edge of Stranrear for the remainder of the journey.
Oh, and its fair to say I think, that my fence straddling technique has developed well here!
37504 37511 steel slab South Bank 27th June 1989
A pair of heavyweight refurbs, 37504 named British Steel Corby and 37511, now in Railfreight two tone grey and named Stockton Haulage run a long train of raw steel bloom and billet out of Lackenby and past the South Bank coke ovens early afternoon of the 27th of June 1989.
Stockton Haulage was a company based at Stranrear and received a daily speedlink train from Tees Yard. Set up with a section 8 government grant in 1979, the company moved, amongst other rail borne commodities, large amounts of steel from Teesside to Northern Ireland using rail for the mainland operation and transferring to truck at their depot on the edge of Stranrear for the remainder of the journey.
Oh, and its fair to say I think, that my fence straddling technique has developed well here!